Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 202

"King Waldemar's wild chase was just then rushing over the moor, and when the great lords heard of the festivities that were going on, they sent a couple of handsome dogs, which hunt on the spoor of the wind, as a present; and these might carry two or three of the Will-o'-the-Wisps.

Who acts: wild chase, great lords, that, lords, handsome dogs, these · What happens: rush, hear, go on, send, hunt, carry · To what, where: moor, festivities, couple, spoor, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild chase, great lords, that, lords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 rushing	punct
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Waldemar	compound
3	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chase	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Waldemar	case
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chase	amod
6	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rushing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rushing	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 rushing	advmod
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 rushing	advmod
10	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sent	advcl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 moor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moor	det
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rushing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 heard	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lords	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lords	amod
19	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 rushing	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 festivities	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 festivities	det
23	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 going	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 festivities	csubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 going	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rushing	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	nsubj
30	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 couple	det
32	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sent	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 dogs	case
34	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dogs	amod
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 couple	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hunt	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 hunt	nsubj
38	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dogs	acl:relcl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 spoor	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spoor	det
41	spoor	spoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunt	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 wind	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wind	det
44	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spoor	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 present	punct
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 present	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 present	det
48	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunt	parataxis
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 carry	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 carry	cc
51	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	53 carry	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 carry	aux
53	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sent	advcl
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 carry	obj
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 three	cc
56	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 two	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	66 Wisps	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Wisps	det
59	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 Wisps	aux
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 Wisps	punct
61	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	66 Wisps	case
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 Wisps	punct
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 Wisps	punct
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Wisps	det
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 the	punct
66	Wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 three	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rush in a quote	past · progressive	King Waldemar's wild chase		the moor	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over moor=Trajectory
2	hear in a quote	participle	the great lords	the festivities			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer festivity=Stimulus
3	go on in a quote	past · progressive	that				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send in a quote	past	lords = lord	a couple of handsome dogs			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme
5	hunt in a quote	present	handsome dogs		the spoor of the wind		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on spoor=Location
6	carry in a quote	might	these	two			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme
7	chase in a quote		King Waldemar				nom chase «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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